State of Health
The National Family Health Survey-5 that was released last week offers a clear improvement in the overall health of women and the child and...
What Is The New Variant Of Coronavirus And How Dangerous Is It?
A new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, is thought to be driving increased transmission of the disease in parts of the...
Why Routine Non Communicable Diseases Are Killing More People, Even In Kashmir?
by Aasia Hassan
Sooner or later this pandemic will be over, but the deadly and silent pandemic of Non-Communicable Diseases will persist
While the world is...
Covid Combatants
Around 1100 health workers in Kashmir contracted the infection, fought it and recovered, unlike the five doctors who died. Preoccupied with managing Covid-19 and...
Cancer’s Covid-19 Overlap
Covid-19 scare jammed life and people started avoiding hospitals. What happened to cancer patients? Saima Bhat visited Kashmir’s major cancer treatment facilities to get...
A Brave Battle
While putting up a brave fight against a life-threatening disease and even losing his wife to discord, a young man ensured that he completes...
How My Family Fought Covid-19 Infection And Recovered?
by Muazzam Khursheed
Throughout my experience of battling with the virus, what I could comprehend is that other than medication, the mental health of the...
Trekking For 2G
Not far away from the Line of Control (LoC) in Uri sector, students climb to a hilltop to catch the low-speed mobile signal to...
‘This Winter, Have Good Food, Stay Warm And Avoid Cold’
SKIMS Pulmonary and Internal Medicine Consultant Dr Syed Mudasir Qadri tells HirraAzmat
KASHMIR LIFE (KL): What are the most common pulmonary diseases and disorders found in Kashmir?
DR Syed...
Covid-19: 1430 Deaths After
Seven months into the Coronavirus pandemic, Jammu and Kashmir is struggling to cope with the rising number of infections and deaths. With winter approaching,...
‘What Doesn’t Kill You, Makes You Stronger’
A Specialty Registrar Doctor in Psychiatry in the hospitals of Oxford Deanery, Dr Shah Tarfarosh is an Oxford University post-graduate with an impressive track...
Back to Cycling
Protracted lockdowns have increased sedentary lifestyle forcing the new generation to embrace cycling to manage part of the obesity load. It is helping the...
Schools On Distress Sale
So far, Kashmir’s public discourse surrounded the loss of school days and the sluggish 2G in the education’s online circus. Silently but surely, the...
Unreal Class, Real Tensions
Teachers recount the travails of delivering online lectures at 2G speed, reports Umar Mukhtar
At 8 am, Rafia, a school teacher, keeps her cell phone connected...
Unmasked, Literally
Refusal to follow safety protocols by the people and lax enforcement of the law by the administration is behind the surge in the number...
